briffle

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by briffle 5d ago
most large tankers are too large for both the Suez and Panama Canals.
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by briffle 8d ago
Sat in CERT and emergency coordination meetings in the Pacific Northwest. If the > 9.0 earthquake happens that is predicted, it will take a week to get temporary shelters working. All supplies will get flown to the few large airports ea
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by briffle 13d ago
I would have also immediately asked for their policy on how long children of different ages can be unsupervised.
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by briffle 19d ago
> If it's so much cheaper to build multiple small reactors, just build one big plant with 24 small reactors. That is literally the plan with several designs like NuScale (and I think TerraPower). The plan with NuScale is to ship the
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by briffle 26d ago
The two highest grossing dispenseries in the state of Oregon sit off the first I-84 exit in Oregon about 40 min from Boise..
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by briffle 29d ago
i'm not an expert in the oil industry, but my understanding is that caverns they have made are full of liquid to keep them from collapsing. For every barrel of oil they pump out, they pump a barrel of water in, and push more oil to the
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by briffle 2mo ago
I think battery life is the most important. My Garmin Instinct 2 goes about 3.5 weeks between charging (the older non-OLED screen). It has solar, so I usually go over a month. But a watch, something people will wear swimming, sweaty, in t
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by briffle 2mo ago
our family has had a special 'code word' we have had since the kids were in elementary school. If someone ever needed to pick up our kids from school (they never did) our kids were taught to ask for that word. This is a good remin
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by briffle 2mo ago
Here in America, if you or I get shot, a detective gets assigned the case along with 30 other cases on their desk. When a CEO gets shot, the largest city assigns an unlimited number of police to the case to find the person...
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by briffle 3mo ago
Only if we also add Social Security numbers, since it was supposed to be a unique Identitifier (like an email) and not a secret.
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by briffle 3mo ago
A commercial driver has a physical every year, severe restrictions on how they can drive, hours behind wheel, etc. But if you have 2 cataract surguries, oncoming dementia, and a body full of arthritis that can barely move, you can drive a
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by briffle 3mo ago
and when they can't get lots of "we don't accept unverified calls" messages, they will fix the problem.
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by briffle 3mo ago
Logical replication needs a special 'upgrade' use case that will automate most of its pain points away. I understand why DDL does not replicate, and that you may want to replicate to a data warehouse that only needs some columns,
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by briffle 4mo ago
My State is essentially screwed for budgeting, because for years, our public retirement system garunteed "AT LEAST 8%" to accounts. Some years was much higher. I have a parent that make more, 10 years after retirement, then they
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by briffle 4mo ago
Their insurance rates will go up. Its not like they are cutting a check from their county budget...
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by briffle 4mo ago
Does your company require the pin? Or more importantly, does the company that your company pays for Cyber insurance require the pin? I have never seen a company where they require the pin for bitlocker.
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by briffle 4mo ago
are you seriously arguing that Teacher unions are just as bad? Teachers don't have the power to weild state sanctioned violence on you. I mean, maybe you could argue about Fire Department Unions, (they can shut down events, force you
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by briffle 5mo ago
That was our struggle with implementing "blocking" tech at a school I worked at. Is a kid looking up how to do a breast self exam porn? What about a self testicular exam.. What about actual Sex Ed kinds of sites?
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by briffle 5mo ago
I looked at taking the train from my town to Glacier National Park along with my bike. The route goes from Portland and Seattle to Chicago, and has a stop at south glacier. Step 1, get to the local train station in my town. There are 6 tr
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by briffle 5mo ago
> Not adjusting for inflation and quality really damages the integrity of the comparisons, as does cherry picking your base examples. But then they also need to make sure to also match salaries to inflation too.. Because wages have not
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by briffle 5mo ago
gorge = george
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by briffle 5mo ago
We recently moved from Barman to pgBackrest. Our main complaints with barman were that incremental backups utilized hardlinks. Which was great, we could have our 7TB database backed up, and the next day, only 20GB in changes. But, when re
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by briffle 5mo ago
The project has never even had a donation button on its page, only a link with a few sponsors.
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by briffle 5mo ago
Ozempic in the US just had its price reduced to $499 for a pen with a few 2mg doses...
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by briffle 6mo ago
Kids are smart. My school district has sealed pouches.. Its amazing how many kids throw an old phone in there, and put their actual one away hidden on silent. Which I guess gets looked the other way, since they aren't using it in cla
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by briffle 6mo ago
its a blanket rule, which has almost no exceptions. So there are some silly parts. One of my kids is in band and the school uses YONDER pouches. They have had to dig out some really, really old analog tuners to use. They have a fraction
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by briffle 6mo ago
A famous case of this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile where the man identitified he had a concealed carry, the cop told him not reach for it, he started to say he wasn't, he was gettin
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by briffle 6mo ago
Its a double edged sword. yes, it stifles renewable energy innovation, but those rules are usually put in place in a more general sense, and you would really want them in place if next door was suddenly announced to be a landfill, or chemic
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by briffle 6mo ago
They both showed up in person, because that was NOT the first time that had happened.
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by briffle 6mo ago
I have seen what happens with garbage-in/garbage-out in databases, so this kind of stuff terrifies me. I often think of a case where we had a person listed twice in our database, with same address, birthday, etc, only thing different

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